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H.R. 50 116th Congress House

GREAT Act

Official title: To modernize Federal grant reporting, and for other purposes.

Introduced: January 3, 2019 Introduced by: Virginia Foxx Republican · North Carolina See on congress.gov
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 Latest action January 3, 2019

Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency Act of 2019 or the GREAT Act

This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget, jointly with the executive department that issues the most federal grant awards, to (1) establish government-wide data standards for information reported by grant recipients, (2) issue guidance directing federal agencies to apply those standards, and (3) require the publication of recipient-reported data collected from all agencies on a single public website.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 50: GREAT Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-50/
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"H.R. 50: GREAT Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-50/.
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H.R. 50, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-50/.
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